AMERICAN FLYER O GAUGE

The AF 561 is a nice representation of the PRR K5 engine. Here is a picture of one that I resurrected from the scrap heap and relettered to 551.

Nice restoration job! Good looking AF engine also. Thanx

The 5xx series of locomotives are from the 1939-41 time frame. Many use the same shell castings that later became S gauge. Most of these are nice looking engines, but keep in mind this was the beginning of 3/16 scale. Your rolling stock will need to be of a similar size to look right. The Atlantic and Pacific types are not budget busters, but the bigger ones can get quite pricey.

Many like myself like to match them up with Marx 3/16 scale lithographed cars, quite nice looking.

Steve

The more common loco's were the 4-4-2 Atlantic type and the 4-6-2 Pacific types. The less common were the 4-6-4 Hudson types, 4-8-4 Northern types, 0-8-0 switchers.

This site has some of the Flyer catalogs from that era.

http://www.rfgco.com/americanf...talogs/catalogs.html

Steve

A 3/16 gauge (1939-41?)  boiler cab on a 1/48-1/50 O gauge frame structure ?  . Seen the reverse many years later.  ON3 , not as comparable exact  gauge, but as an example Seems odd. Would you like  to clarify? Thanx

American Flyer made a very nice version of the NYC Hudson in the days before they went to 3/16" size. It's not full 1/4" scale like the Lionel Hudson, but it is large and handsome. Folks sometimes call it the Chicago Flyer Hudson. You might want to check one of those out, too.

Thank you for the insight. I just looked one up on line. Nice piece with what looks like copper piping an extrusions. I can deal with the Vandy.   Thanx again.

There was also an 0-6-0 that was more to O Scale proportions